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Footsie: Nickname for the Financial Times Stock Exchange...

July 05, 1993

Footsie: Nickname for the Financial Times Stock Exchange Index, which includes the 100 largest publicly owned stocks listed on the London Stock Exchange. Footsie is Great Britain's answer to the Dow Jones indexes in the U.S.

Knife: Nickname for the New York Futures Exchange, derived from the exchange's initials, NYFE.